Contrary to what you might think, this is not a picture of princess-to-be Kate Middleton trying on her wedding dress before her upcoming nuptials on Friday. Despite its verisimilitude, this is the work of Alison Jackson (check out her website), an […]
Sunday night was the premiere of the controversial four-part miniseries “The Kennedys,” a show dropped by the History Channel in the U.S. and subsequently relegated to the hitherto unknown ReelzChannel (in Canada, it was shown on History Television, a Global affiliate). The controversy surrounding the show does seem a little strange in this day and […]
At a crucial point in the film “Hereafter” (2010), a reluctant psychic (played by Matt Damon) visits the home of Victorian novelist Charles Dickens in London. On the wall is a famous painting: “Dickens’ Dream,” where the famous writer is pictured asleep, encircled by the spectral figures of the characters he brought to life in […]
A recent article on Francis Schaeffer in Commonweal magazine highlights the “tremendous tension” in the thought of the man who was arguably the most influential intellectual for a generation of evangelicals. On the one hand, Schaeffer and his friend H.R. Rookmaaker loved the arts, enjoying the music, painting and philosophy of the twentieth century and […]
The Super Bowl spectacle provides an intersection of Christ and culture with an ad that won’t be shown.
The award-winning film “The Social Network” opens up a discussion of human loneliness.
The hit reality TV show Cake Boss is about more than the stressful life of the baker at a celebrated New Jersey bakery: it shows that food can be art, and in food art there is the characteristic of humanity’s mortality.
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